At the same time, the stated objectives, as officially presented at Johannesburg, included the bringing together of a number of United Nations agencies and organizations (United Nations Office for Project Services, Economic Commission for Europe, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, United Nations Institute for Training and Research, World Health Organization, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS), intergovernmental bodies (the European Union), associations of cities (both global and regional), non-governmental organizations (Global Ecovillage Network, Fondation du Devenir) and the private sector (Vivendi Environnement) in order to develop a comprehensive capacity-building and training programme. The programme, designed to help local authorities achieve sustainable urbanization, would be based on a public-private partnership initiative.
Al mismo tiempo, los objetivos declarados, según se presentaron oficialmente en Johannesburgo, eran reunir a una serie de organismos y organizaciones de las Naciones Unidas (UNOPS, CEPE, PNUD, ONU-Hábitat, UNITAR, OMS, ONUSIDA), órganos intergubernamentales (la Unión Europea), asociaciones de ciudades (tanto mundiales como regionales), organizaciones no gubernamentales (Global Ecovillage Network, Fondation du Devenir) y el sector privado (Vivendi Environnement), para desarrollar un programa amplio de creación de capacidad y formación basado en una iniciativa de colaboración entre entidades públicas y privadas para ayudar a las autoridades locales a lograr la urbanización sostenible.